Whos solo stuff do you prefer the most

Brians, without any doubt!

back to the light, resurrection, and some other tracks never lost the magic they had to me when I first bought BTTL back in 92.

I will go with Freddie's solo works

Love all the Mr Bad Guy album and some of the Barcelona album

Barcelona is a fantastic song

How can i go on very emotional song seeing as it probably related to what Freddie was going through at the time and I love the Golden Boy

Roger. Especially Fun In Space is great, seeing he plays almost everything himself, which makes it literally a solo album.

Wiley wrote: The only solo album I have on constant rotation is Fun in Space. I listen to it at least once every couple of months or so. That has to be my favorite.

Barcelona is great but I rarely listen to it. Like Queen II, I guess.
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Which is quite funny, because Barcelona and Queen II have been in my top 5 albums of all time since I first discovered them in '87/88!
Queen II is the Queen album I play the most. I just can't get enough of it and I really do hope they 5.1 it sometime SOON...

freddies of course, its basically queen albums

brians wig wrote: Wiley wrote: The only solo album I have on constant rotation is Fun in Space. I listen to it at least once every couple of months or so. That has to be my favorite.

Barcelona is great but I rarely listen to it. Like Queen II, I guess.
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Which is quite funny, because Barcelona and Queen II have been in my top 5 albums of all time since I first discovered them in '87/88!
Queen II is the Queen album I play the most. I just can't get enough of it and I really do hope they 5.1 it sometime SOON...

Queen2 is also my favorite Queen album, along with A Night At The Opera.  Believe it or not barcelona is right there.  i'll take that music to my grave.

Wouldn't it be lovely if the outdated synths on Barcelona were re-recorded orchestrally?

John's "Man In The Shadows" album far outweighs any from the other guys......

Hmmm....sure is a tough question to answer.  I like Brian's work probably. I prefer Roger's work with the Cross probably better than his own solo work though he does have some stand out tracks. Freddie's solo work I think is very dated (not Barcelona of course)  though I prefer listening to the original versions of the Mr Bad Guy songs than the Queen versions.   Barcelona is an outstanding piece of work by Freddie and it's a shame he never got the chance to branch out like this and do more. But, after all that, I do own all their solo CD's and they all do still get a play.

My rankings (of the ones I've really listened to)

1.  Barcelona (Fred)
2.  Fun in Space (Roger)
3.  Back to the Light (Brian)
4.  Strange Frontier (Roger)
5.  Mr. Bad Guy (Fred)
6.  Another World (Brian)

In this order for me:

Blue Rock
Mad Bad.........
Star Fleet Project
Barcelona
Strange Frontier

I then don't pay any of the other solo material any other attention I'm afraid.

ThomasQuinn wrote: Wouldn't it be lovely if the outdated synths on Barcelona were re-recorded orchestrally?

sadly that would Never Happen.......isn't the title track a real orchestra?......Also, I like the way it sounds as is, but I would imagine the real thing would Improve the album even more.  I know brian is a big fan of Barcelona, so he might be our only hope.

If we're talking re-recording songs with different instruments, how about a Pumped up version of Hot Space, with a bit more electric guitars and analog/organic drums?

Hehehe :) Sorry, I couldn't resist.

Yea, Barcelona might benefit a little, but hot space would benefit a whole lot more.   hot space had solid songs and isn't nearly as bad as people say,  but put heavier music like the live version of staying power and it would have kicked ass.  We could do Mr. bad guy While we're at it,  lol.

I like Brian's Stuff better, and I think Freddie's songs sound way better worked by the rest of queen (born to love you, made in heaven)